The mystery of what took down Air France Flight 447 over the Atlantic, killing all 228 on board, has haunted investigators for two years. Now aviation expert Clive Irving reconstructs a timeline of ...

In the early hours of June 1 2009, Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris went missing, along with 216 passengers and 12 crew. The Airbus A330-200 disappeared mid-ocean, beyond radar ...

Debris surrounds divers recovering wreckage from Air France flight 447. June 8, 2009 — -- An "ocean of debris" now surrounds divers recovering wreckage and bodies from Air France flight 447 in ...

FERNANDO DE NORONHA ? A Brazilian helicopter crew recovered the first wreckage from Air France Flight 447 on Thursday, fishing a structural support piece about eight feet (2.5 meters) long from the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Investigators trying to determine why Air France Flight 447 broke apart in a violent storm over the Atlantic are looking at the possibility that speed sensors -- or an external ...

As the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and the 239 people on board has continued over the past 12 days, there have been many reminders about the fate of Air France Flight 447. En route from ...

PARIS (AP) — A reservation mix-up, an overbooking and a Brazilian cabbie's passion for soccer are all that saved some would-be passengers on Air France flight 447 from the fate of 228 others who lost ...

The newest report from the French investigation bureau BEA finds that confusion reigned in the cockpit as the doomed Air France flight 447 fell out of the sky and into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, ...

Faulty sensor readings contributed to a copilots decision to nose the plane up instead of heading down to increase air speed and prevent a deadly... Faulty warning ...

Faulty Pitot tubes—speed sensors that are crucial for auto-pilot navigation—surfaced as one of the leading theories explaining why Air France 447 crashed in 2009. The latest black box analysis ...

PARIS – The head of the French agency leading the probe into the crash of Flight 447 says Air France had not replaced instruments that measure air speed on the plane, which the manufacturer had ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Responding to recent incidents in which airliners vanished, U.S. accident investigators recommended Thursday that all passenger planes making long flights over water carry improved ...